NFS mounting options 1

[gcazian]

I am trying to determine the best set of NFS mount options for our environment. Does anyone have any recomendations?

Also, I am a bit confused by the hard vs. soft mounting options. I understand that hard will attempt to mount until the server responds. Does this mean that it wiill attempt up to the number of retries specified? Or will it continue until the NFS server truly resonds?

 

[MoshiachNow]

NFS mount type








specifies how the client acts if the server does not respond to its NFS request.

Hard
retries indefinitely. The client will continue to attempt the NFS file operation indefinitely if the operation fails. Hard mounts should be used when the server and the link to the server are known to be reliable. Hard mounts with the interruptible option enabled is the recommended method of mounting remote filesystems. The default is hard mount.

Soft
retries NFS file operation n times as set by the number of retries before reporting error option; returns error if no server response in n tries. Soft mounts are recommended for filesystems whose servers are considered unreliable, or if the link is slow. Unlike spongy mounts, soft mounts may time out during read and write operations.



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[gcazian]

Thank you.

I am also curious about the bg and fg options. If my mounting option is hard and the method for mounting is fg (fore ground), will the system be hung until the mount is accomplished?

 

[MoshiachNow]

Hi,

Yes,the system may hang in this situation.

For more see :

http://www16.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixbman/commadmn/nfs_install.htm

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